--- "limholt@excite.com" limholt@excite.com wrote:
One of the goals generally included in the Wiki 1.0 discussion is the creation of a paper Wikipedia. This sems to have an assumption that lot's of material gets dropped or summarized. I agree with the necessity of that, since paper must be more limited that a hard drive file to be practical. But what about those areas where we have lots more info than a general encyclopedia?
Wikipedia isn't exceptionally big as far as encyclopedias go.
This is a thought about some of the leftover material. I don't mean to imply a well thought out procedure, but a procedure outline sems the most direct way t explain this idea. So, here comes a three step procedure.
- Complete a list of possible additional paper
books to go with the paper Wikipedia 1.0. Examples would be "The Encyclopedia of Rock", "The Enc. of Science Fiction, with Character Ibdex", "Star Trek Encyclopedia", "Enc. of American Biography", etc., etc.
Encyclopedia of lists, wikipedia would be great for.
- When reviewing Wiki articles to include in the
paper 1.0, see if a copy goes in any other stacks. For articles droped, put them in their specialized stack.
I'm not exactly sure what your review process is. Could you explain it in more depth?
- When finished, examine the other stacks to see
which have publishable volume and content. Then see if a publisher is interested.
Or we could self-publish from preorder money if no publisher is available.
Just a thought....
Thanks, Lou Imholt (LouI at Wiki)
LDan
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